Triple

T6860582
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nick Collison E158266 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Nicholas John Collison
Nicholas John Collison is a retired American professional basketball player best known for his long tenure as a dependable forward with the Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA.
E624304 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Nicholas John Collison | Statement: [Nick Collison, fullName, Nicholas John Collison]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas John Collison
Context triple: [Nick Collison, fullName, Nicholas John Collison]
  • A. Wilson Collison
    Wilson Collison was an American playwright and novelist whose works, often adapted for stage and screen, contributed to early 20th-century popular entertainment.
  • B. James Collinson
    James Collinson was a 19th-century English painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and early Victorian art circles.
  • C. Nicholas Johnston
    Nicholas Johnston is a friend of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after whom Johnson’s son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson was partly named.
  • D. Grant Collier
    Grant Collier is a video game developer best known as a co-founder of Infinity Ward and a key figure behind the early Call of Duty series.
  • E. James Lawton Collins
    James Lawton Collins was a United States Army officer and military attaché known for his service in the early 20th century, including World War I.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Nicholas John Collison
Triple: [Nick Collison, fullName, Nicholas John Collison]
Generated description
Nicholas John Collison is a retired American professional basketball player best known for his long tenure as a dependable forward with the Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas John Collison
Target entity description: Nicholas John Collison is a retired American professional basketball player best known for his long tenure as a dependable forward with the Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA.
  • A. Wilson Collison
    Wilson Collison was an American playwright and novelist whose works, often adapted for stage and screen, contributed to early 20th-century popular entertainment.
  • B. James Collinson
    James Collinson was a 19th-century English painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and early Victorian art circles.
  • C. Nicholas Johnston
    Nicholas Johnston is a friend of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after whom Johnson’s son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson was partly named.
  • D. Grant Collier
    Grant Collier is a video game developer best known as a co-founder of Infinity Ward and a key figure behind the early Call of Duty series.
  • E. James Lawton Collins
    James Lawton Collins was a United States Army officer and military attaché known for his service in the early 20th century, including World War I.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69c68830cdbc8190a8301c7a9d9f651a completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d88659c8819084916663219a8198 completed March 27, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c72fed3e788190b2b68fc93173f73e completed March 28, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7361177ac8190b1e06cb15d258d0f completed March 28, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7381015a081909f9b32732f826d2c completed March 28, 2026, 2:08 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:21 p.m.